Many hospitals receive millions of dollars a year in 340B drug discounts, a program created to help safety-net hospitals reach more patients. The program has grown exponentially, spreading program dollars across tens of thousands of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies.

About 9 months after announcing a planned merger, Marshfield Clinic Health System and EssentiaHealth take a key step forward (via my colleague, Alex Kacik) modernhealthcare.com/mergers-acquis…

Sanford and Fairview just announced that they scrapped their proposed merger. It's their second failed merger attempt over the past decade. We got a tip yesterday that an announcement was coming, and got this story ready: bit.ly/43Iprdq via Modern Healthcare

Since October, at least a dozen hospital transactions have been proposed or completed involving buyers or sellers across the Midwest. bit.ly/3qlX5Yy via Modern Healthcare w/ visual from Tim Broderick

ICYMI: Providers, payers and patients’ inevitable fight over virtual care access and pay has come to fruition. modernhealthcare.com/insurance/tele… via Modern Healthcare w/ Alex Kacik

Employers have hit a tipping point, as Alex Kacik of Modern Healthcare reports. Gloria Sachdev and her peers are setting a new policy agenda. Follow experts like Chris Skisak, Elizabeth Mitchell, Cheryl DeMars, and Denise Giambalvo to see the progress in their states. modernhealthcare.com/providers/hosp…

A Brighton Park family is raising money after a Chicago journalist was killed in a house fire. blockclubchi.co/40EmPx3

Story by Alex Kacik Modern Healthcare: modernhealthcare.com/providers/nonp…

Hello from SF! On the ground with Alex Kacik this week at J.P. Morgan's 42nd annual healthcare conference. Don't forget to follow along for real-time updates from the MH team. #JPM2024 modernhealthcare.com/finance/jpm-20…

Not perfect, but a step in the right direction. Since 2018, Bipartisan Policy Center has recommended rightsizing health care services to fit community needs: bipartisanpolicy.org/report/reinven… How CMS' rural pay model has helped hospitals: modernhealthcare.com/providers/cms-… via Modern Healthcare Alex Kacik

Good story from Alex Kacik (despite the positioning in the hed) about why rural emergency hospital designation uptake has been so slow: The tradeoffs include giving up swing beds and 340B savings modernhealthcare.com/providers/cms-… (corrected tweet)

Private equity-backed consolidation divides physicians - from Modern Healthcare Alex Kacik ow.ly/Afz050QWRPj

#ICYMI last night Optum is buying troubled Steward Physician Group via Alex Kacik modernhealthcare.com/mergers-acquis…

Insurance market shake-up spurs interest from integrated systems modernhealthcare.com/providers/mass…